The number of homeless families also rose to 1,385 in June - an increase of 147 compared to the end of the first quarter of the year.
"Among the recent measures I have introduced to help those at risk of homelessness are changes to the Housing Assistance Payment scheme, to increase the HAP discretion rate to 35% and to expand the couple's rate to single persons. Focus Ireland says the number of people who are homeless is edging closer to the"historic high" of 10,514 in October 2019
The Director of Advocacy at the charity, Mike Allen, said:"Local authorities across the country are being driven into desperate attempts to open new homeless shelters when we know that emergency accommodation is not the answer, housing is the answer."Caoimhe O'Connell, a spokesperson for the Dublin Simon Community said it is"beyond frustrating to see the number of people residing in emergency accommodation in Dublin climb upwards for yet another month.
Its not a housing crisis its an immigration crisis Foreigners not fleeing anything but here bcz they heard how soft the Irish were for a victim-story, taking advantage of our compassion We have fundamental human right to protect our own & say not one immigrant if we so wish
MariaLaoise Selfish Irish Bas*ards? Don't they know Ukrainians need housing?
Refugees welcome
Mainistreach I wonder what could be going on. It's all a real puzzle.
This is due in no small part to the mass immigration of the past 25 years.
Homelessness up by 1/3 in 2022. Let’s be clear, refugees are taking precedence over Irish citizens.
What do u expect when immigrants are housed before Irish people not rocket science is it
We have a housing crisis no doubt. But the relentless “what about our own first” narrative is shameful. To see people complaining about us giving shelter to fellow humans, mostly women and children who are fleeing an active war zone full of atrocities is disgusting.
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Do these figures include victims of domestic violence who are sleeping in cars, vans, tents? FocusIreland So many disclosed to us on our helplines, not sure if included and visible? InvisibleHomeless
At least they location accomodation but we cannot afford to take in any more migrants.
RTE are part of the establishment. By not probing the government they are allowing this madness to continue. Truthmatters
How many are drunks or drug addicts?
Thanks mass immigration
Aye but we've given hundreds of thousands of immigrants homes including illegal immigrants 'regularisation' just this week so what's the problem?
40000 ukranians get homes.
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Ahh LeoVaradkar MichealMartinTD and dopey EamonRyan were busy fighting the farmers for the scam climate change
How many economic migrants are here claiming homelessness hoping to skip the social housing list?
Nothing like the historic high of 'to hell or to Connaught' but a crime against the Irish nation just the same.
Are these numbers all Irish homeless?
It’s ok we have looked after all the “Refugees” 1st before our own citizens. As as a country we need to collectively pat ourselves on the back. Congratulations Ireland putting others 1st 🤡🤡😱😱🙈🙈🤕🤕
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Unaffordable rents ! Unfortunately Homes! Remember we are all only 2 pay cheques from being homeless ourselves...except for FG FF and Green millionaires!!
This government is a total failure LeoVaradkar EamonRyan MichealMartinTD you guys need to be sacked!
Why does Irish media continually use pictures of people rough sleeping in articles about the numbers of people in emergency accommodation. They are different circumstances.
While thousands of Ukrainians refugees comes to Ireland with loads of benefits. Another success for Irish government
Wer are you DarraghOBrienTD after being told all this ..houses price up ..homeless up come back eoghn Murphy all is forgiven Niall_Boylan VirginMediaNews FineGeal gavreilly
If only this was climate related you see some action if it was gavreilly RedFMNews corkbeo Niall_Boylan greenparty_ie
If only Irish people could speak Ukrainian they’d be home and dry.
If the Aviva has taken in 100 Ukrainian people why can they not help the homeless too?
Focus Ireland also made money by stating they’d eradicate homelessness within 10 years about 15 years ago